Senegalese students on their way to employment

From left to right: Mohammed Dieng, tech entrepreneur;

Mohammed Lamine Kébé, head of the innovation and entrepreneurship center at the Polytechnic School of Dakar and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, rector of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.

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By: Bruno Faure Follow

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Éco d'ici Éco d'ailleurs is relocating to the prestigious Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, in the heart of the Senegalese capital, to talk about youth employment.

This is where the AUF (Agence universitaire de la francophonie), an association that brings together more than a thousand higher education and research establishments around the world, inaugurated one of its Francophone employability centres.

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These structures aim to help students enter the business world more easily, an economic springboard for a generation affected by the consequences of the pandemic. 

Bruno Faure interviews Thomas Mendy, student at ISEP (higher institute of vocational education) in Thiès (Senegal).

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Our guests :

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Professor Slim Khalbous,

rector of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie 

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Ahmadou Aly Mbaye,

rector of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar 

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Valérie Ndiaye,

nutritionist and general manager of Esteval, a Senegalese SME specializing in the transformation of local fruits into juices, syrups and jams. 

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Mohammed Lamine Kebe,

head of the innovation and entrepreneurship center at the École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar 

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Aissatou Willane,

Bachelor of Human Resources student,  startuper

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Mohammed Dieng,

Blockchain/NFT entrepreneur. 

Bruno Faure and his guests during the recording of Eco from here, eco from elsewhere in the premises of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie in Dakar.

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